TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ors,Evren
AU  - Palomino,Frederic
AU  - Peyrache,Eloic
TI  - Performance gender gap: does competition matter?
SN  - 0734306X
AV  - HD5706 JOU 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Chicago University
KW  - Gender-gap
KW  - Relative-performance evaluation
N2  - Using data from a natural experiment with high payoffs in education, we examine whether the competitive nature of tournament structure explains the performance gender-gap. We find that performance is statistically lower for women, the variance of performance is higher for men, and the tails of the performance distribution are significantly fatter for men. For the same participants in non-competitive settings with similar academic content, the performance of women first-order-stochastically dominates that of men. We reject differences in risk aversion and ability as reasons for performance gender-gap
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1086/669331
ER  -